From 16 -24 July Kent Nagano presents this year’s Vorsprung Festival as part of “Audi Sommerkonzerte”.
It is the last planned edition of Vorsprung Festival that was introduced by Artistic Director Kent Nagano in 2014.
This year a concertant “Idomeneo” et al with Christoph and Julian Prégardien and Concerto Köln will be presented.
Find here information on the program.
On 3 July Kent Nagano concludes his first season as General Music Director at the Hamburg State Opera with the world premiere of Turangalîla, a ballett by John Neumeier and the symphony by Olivier Messiaen of the same name. This production is the first collaboration of Kent Nagano and John Neumeier.
Further performances are on 5 and 8 July 2016.
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On 21 April Kent Nagano will conduct the premiere of Bach’s St Matthew Passion “La Passione” staged by Romeo Castellucci in the Deichtorhallen Hamburg.
This staged version can also be seen on 23 and 24 April 2016.
Find more information about this production here.
Kent Nagano, Artistic Advisor and Principal Guest Conductor of Göteborgs Symfoniker will be conducting the orchestra on 31 March, 1 and 2 April 2016.
Soprano Barbara Hannigan, artist in residence at Göteborgs Symfoniker in this current season will perform Villa-Lobos. Works by Boulez, Ravel and Mussorgsky can also be heard.
Find here further information about the concerts.
On 21 March General Music Director Kent Nagano and Orchestra Director Georges Delnon unveiled the season 2016/17 of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg. The upcoming season is “divided”: the first half takes place in the Laeiszhalle, the second half in the Elbphilharmonie, which will be opened in January 2017.
Among the highlights of the 189th Philharmonic concert season there are three oratorios, conducted by Kent Nagano, all in the Elbphilharmonie: On 13 January 2017 the world premiere of a commissioned work by Jörg Widmann will take place on the occasion of the opening festival of the Elbphilharmonie. In cooperation with the Hamburg State Opera and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg Symphony No. 8 by Gustav Mahler will follow on 30 April and 1 May 2017, visualized by the artist rosalie. And in mid-June 2017 Kent Nagano conducts the rarely performed oratorio “Gurre-Lieder” by Arnold Schoenberg.
The Philharmonic Academy launched by Kent Nagano in 2015 will again be on the program before the official start of the season in September 2016: In addition to the violinist Veronika Eberle, the Audi Youth Choir Academy is invited to play chamber music with the Philharmonic orchestra, et al Ligeti’s “Poème symphonique for 100 Metronomes”.
Please find here the orchestra’s brochure for the new season.
Ticket sales for concerts in the Laeiszhalle begin on 30 May 2016, for concerts at the Elbphilharmonie on 20 June 2016.
On 10 December at 6.15 pm (CET) a 30 minute portrait will be broadcast about Kent Nagano in North German NDR TV.
The film is about Kent Nagano’s start as General Music Director at the Hamburg State Opera and Chief Conductor at the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg since September 2015.
Watch the film live on NDR live-Stream.
After broadcasting the film can still be seen in the media gallery.
Kent Nagano, Artistic Advisor and Principal Guest Conductor of Göteborgs Symfoniker, is touring with the orchestra from 7 until 10 November 2015 in Germany. Soloists of the concerts in Stuttgart, Freiburg, Munich and Cologne will be pianist Kit Armstrong and violinist Arabella Steinbacher.
The programs are the following:
7 November
Stuttgart, Liederhalle
Göteborgs Symfoniker
Sibelius: Finlandia
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3
Brahms: Symphony No. 1
Kit Armstrong – Piano
8 November
Freiburg, Konzerthaus
s. 7 November
9. November
Munich, Philharmonie am Gasteig
Göteborgs Symfoniker
Sibelius: Finlandia
Mendelssohn: Violin Concert e minor
Brahms: Symphony No. 1
Arabella Steinbacher – Violin
10 November
Cologne, Philharmonie
Göteborgs Symfonikers
s. 9 November
On Monday, 16 November at 5 pm (Montréal time) the Book „Expect the Unexpected!“ by Kent Nagano (and Co-author Inge Kloepfer) will be presented in its French translation on the Canadian book marked by Éditions du Boréal. The book is titled „Sonnez, Merveilles!“.
The book presentation will take place in Maison Symphonique, the Concert Hall of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.
ARTE concert worldwide streaming from Hamburg, in cooperation with Binnenalster Filmfest and City Management Hamburg: Berlioz’ Les Troyens on 19 September at 8.45 pm (MESZ):
http://concert.arte.tv/de/berlioz-troyens-staatsoper-hamburg
(available until 19 March 2016)
The Hamburg State Opera opens the season 2015/16 with Berlioz‘ opera Les Troyens staged by German director Michael Thalheimer and conducted by Kent Nagano, new General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and Chief Conductor of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.
19 September
Hamburg, State Opera
Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra
Berlioz: Les Troyens Premiere
Torsten Kerl – Enée, Catherine Naglestad – Cassandra,
Kartal Karagedik – Chorèbe,
Alin Anca – Panthée, Burak Bilgili – Narbal,
Markus Nykänen – Iopas, Christina Gansch – Ascagne,
Elena Zhidkova – Didon, Katja Pieweck – Anna
Michael Thalheimer – Director
Further performances: 23, 26 September, 1, 4, 9, 14 October
The NDR radio will broadcast live from 5.55 pm (MESZ) on NDR Kultur.
More information here:
On Sunday, 13 September in Hamburg, Kent Nagano will conduct his first Akademiekonzert in the church St. Michaelis („Michel“) with the Chamber Orchester of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra. It will be his first concert within his new position: Kent Nagano is the new Hamburg General Music Director of the State Opera and Chiefconductor of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.
Find her more information about the concert.
On Saturday, 19 September Kent Nagano will conduct his first Opera premiere: Berlioz‘ Les Troyens, brought on stage by German director Michael Thalheimer.